{"id":11825,"date":"2023-06-26T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2023-06-26T08:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T15:44:28","slug":"after-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/?p=11825","title":{"rendered":"After the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Bob Sparrow<\/p>\n

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As you may recall, we left for Spain & Portugal with our backyard turned upside-down, as noted in my blog of April 10, The Storm Before the Calm <\/em>(Comparison photos to follow). \u00a0It was still being finished when we returned and we have been consumed with putting the final touches (outdoor furniture, soft-scape and various tropical accoutrements) on this project that went way over budget \u2013 what a surprise! \u00a0I guess this is my way of letting you know that the extent of my travels these past two weeks has been to Home Depot, the backyard and back to Home Depot . . . OK, and back to Home Depot again!<\/p>\n

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The hardscape has mostly remained the same, except for the disappearance of the large planter right outside the patio doors \u2013 it\u2019s gone; it broke my heart to have to get rid of one large queen palm and two smaller pigmy palms, but I guess that\u2019s the price of progress.\u00a0 That center area is now filled with a fire feature surrounded by couches and an umbrella.\u00a0 The pool has remained the same shape, but it is now surfaced with an \u2018aqua white\u2019 pebble tech finish.\u00a0 The Memorial Garden or as Hawaiians would call it, Ho\u2019omana\u2019o Kihapai<\/em>, behind the pool, still includes the moais that represent the final resting place for my friend, Don Klapperich, my brother Jack, and me.\u00a0 Jack and I aren\u2019t there yet, I don\u2019t think, but a bullet from Don\u2019s military, 21-gun salute lies under the far left moai.<\/p>\n

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The Wall of Masks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ho\u2019omana\u2019o Kihapai,<\/p><\/div>\n

The outdoor bar, with a new BBQ, no longer has a large mirror on the wall behind it, but rather a \u2018Wall of Masks\u2019<\/em>.\u00a0 These are wooden masks from places that I have visited (that have masks), such as Kathmandu, Zimbabwe, Machu Picchu and others, plus there\u2019s room for many more masks, so I hope I can continue to visit some exotic places to fill the wall.<\/p>\n

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So, that\u2019s what I\u2019ve been doing the last several weeks.\u00a0 I love to travel and I love getting home, more now that the backyard is finally done.<\/p>\n

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by Bob Sparrow As you may recall, we left for Spain & Portugal with our backyard turned upside-down, as noted in my blog of April 10, The Storm Before the Calm (Comparison photos to follow). \u00a0It was still being finished … read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4065],"tags":[4159,1251,1942,4158,4157,982],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home","tag-hawaiian-memorial-garden","tag-kathmandu","tag-machu-picchu","tag-the-home-depot","tag-the-storm-before-the-calm","tag-zimbabwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aN0-34J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11825"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11842,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11825\/revisions\/11842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fromabirdseyeview.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}